I have a fresh install (about a week old) of Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca (love the name!), Cinnamon edition on my laptop.
If I right click on a tab, I get the option "Move to monitor 2". The problem is ...

In FreeBSD 10 there is new vt driver for having nice framebuffer console. By default it chooses resolution from the EDID data of monitor. However... I have a monitor that lies in its EDID data, and so ...

I want to configure two screens side by side and want the configuration to persist a system restart. (I'm using xfce on Xubuntu 12.)
I've inspected old questions and the answers mentioned arandr and ...

I have a custom board with a Freecale i.MX6Q SoC.
I am using Linux kernel 3.03.35 and LCD is 3.5 inch RGB type display.
I want to rotate my LCD screen to 180 degree. I tried a lot to pass parameters ...

Everything used to work until recently. Now, whenever I connect my HDMI monitor to my laptop nothing happens. Running xrandr doesn't show the HDMI output. Can anyone help out? I've been trying to fix ...

I have a PC which runs Lubuntu 14.10 without a monitor. The user is autologged in. I have created a Sysvinit script and installed it on /etc/init.d. My script amongst other things, starts a jar file ...

I recently bought a KVM switch, consisting of a VGA switcher and switchable USB hub. This switch however, does not pass EDID info from the connected display to either of the two connected computers.
I ...

I am running ubuntu on my work laptop. When I plug in my external VGA monitor it mirrors part of the screen (different resolution) but does not appear on my monitor list under System Settings > Screen ...

I would like to study the behaviour of the Linux operating system when I connect monitor to a VGA port. What exactly happens inside the OS and the Window Manager, which parts of it are responsible for ...

I am trying to start the X server (I have all the packages installed).
The problem I am having is that the server is offsite, has no screen and never has had a screen connected to it and as a result ...

I have a dual monitor setup with Compiz as window manager on Ubuntu 14.04. I can resize a window to stretch over both windows. However, while the physical display panels are a few centimeters apart, ...

I am using Manjaro with XFCE on a laptop (Thinkpad x240). I have a docking station (Thinkpad Ultra Dock) with a monitor connected and that works like a charm. Today, I received my second monitor and ...

I am running Linux Mint 17 Xfce on an HP Elitebook 840 G1 laptop. Up until just now I was using an external monitor, displaying identically the same thing as the built-in laptop display, connected via ...

I recently purchased an external monitor which I succesfully connected to my Lenovo Thinkpad and the accompanying Lenovo Advanced Dock via a DVI-D cable and it works fine so far.
Unfortunately, I'd ...

I have Ubuntu14.04 64bit installed on computer with a CRT monitor. In Windows I could set the monitor's refresh rate to 85Hz. But Ubuntu's xrandr reports that maximum is 60Hz for 1024x756. Is there a ...

I'm running Ubuntu 13.10 with xmonad. I am not using GNOME. I frequently have a second monitor plugged into my laptop, but I always have to configure the extended display manually. Right now I'm using ...

I have a screen capable of 2560x1440. It is connected to my Intel NUC with a DP to DVI adapter. My graphics card Since updated my Arch Linux system last week (not sure what was updated exactly) I can ...

Recently my notebook screen died and I started using an external VGA monitor. When my computer boots the monitor is off until GRUB 2 starts the OS. Is it possible to make GRUB 2 display its menu in ...

I am installing FreeBSD 10.0 on VirtualBox, and I can't figure out how to change the size of my screan, in the virtualbox?
The freebsd in the virtualbox treats my screen like it's 1/4th the size of ...

So... I have two monitors on my Ubuntu machine. And every time I launch some Windows OpenGL application under Wine it turns off the second monitor. And leaves it turned off when the application exits. ...